Design Studio V101

Professional design studio for creating covers, banners, avatars, logos, mockups, portfolios and GIF animations. Use when you need to create designs for freelance platforms (Fiverr, Kwork, Upwork), generate social media banners, check design quality, add watermarks, batch-generate covers from CSV, or pick color palettes and font pairings.

Design Studio — Professional Design Skill for OpenClaw

What You Get

• ⏱️ 30 seconds per cover instead of 2 hours in Canva or Figma
• 📊 Auto quality scoring (1-10) — stop guessing if your design is good enough
• 📦 Batch-generate 50+ covers from a CSV in one command
• 🔄 A/B test 4 variants instantly — pick the winner by score, not gut feeling
• 🎬 Animated GIF banners — no After Effects needed
• 📱 Device mockups in seconds — laptop, phone, tablet, any device
• 💧 Watermarking — protect your work in tile, corner, or center mode

When to Use

Activate this skill when you need to:

• Create covers for freelance profiles (Fiverr, Kwork, Upwork, Freelance.ru)
• Generate banners for social media, channels, repos
• Design logos (text-based, icon, combined)
• Build portfolio cards or presentations
• Create avatars (initials, abstract, brand)
• Prepare UI mockups or visual prototypes
• Check design quality with automated scoring

Available Tools

Tool	Purpose	Command
Pillow (Python)	Raster graphics, banners, avatars	python3 -c "from PIL import Image"
ImageMagick	Convert, effects, compositing	convert, magick
svgwrite (Python)	SVG generation	python3 -c "import svgwrite"
CairoSVG (Python)	SVG → PNG/PDF rendering	python3 -c "import cairosvg"
Inkscape	SVG editing (CLI)	inkscape --export-type=png
GIMP	Advanced raster processing (CLI)	gimp -i -b '(script-fu ...)'
fonttools (Python)	Font metrics and kerning	python3 -c "from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont"

Fonts

Find system fonts:

fc-list : family | grep -i "name"
fc-match --format="%{file}\n" "PT Sans:Bold"

Recommended Cyrillic: PT Sans/Serif, Roboto, Open Sans, Montserrat, DejaVu Sans.

Scripts (12)

Basic:

• scripts/generate_banner.py — banners (size, palette, style, fonts)
• scripts/generate_avatar.py — avatars (gradient/flat/circle, 1024x1024)
• scripts/check_design.py — auto quality scoring (contrast, balance, palette → 1-10)

Marketplace covers:

• scripts/generate_marketplace_cover.py — Fiverr (1280×769), Kwork (1200×800), Freelance.ru, Upwork (1584×396)

Advanced:

• scripts/mockup_generator.py — device mockups (laptop/phone/tablet/monitor/hand_phone)
• scripts/design_pipeline.py — full pipeline: generate → check → auto-improve → final
• scripts/generate_svg_library.py — SVG library (23 elements: icons, badges, frames)

Batch & effects:

• scripts/ab_variants.py — A/B test: 4 cover variants with different palettes + score comparison
• scripts/generate_gif_banner.py — animated GIF banners (fade_in/slide/pulse/typewriter)
• scripts/watermark.py — watermarks (bottom_right/center/tile)
• scripts/batch_generate.py — mass cover generation from CSV file

SVG library (references/svg_elements/): 10 icons, 5 badges, 5 shapes, 3 frames — ready to embed.

Print & Document Design

Also supports brochures, catalogs, and multi-page docs via Scribus, LaTeX, Typst, WeasyPrint, Pandoc, LibreOffice.

Workflow

1. Brief — define task, audience, style
2. Palette — choose from references/color-palettes.md (20 curated palettes)
3. Fonts — pick a pair from references/font-pairings.md (15 tested pairs)
4. Rules — follow references/design-rules.md
5. Create — use scripts or tools directly
6. Check — run scripts/check_design.py
7. Iterate — fix by recommendations, re-check

References

• references/design-rules.md — professional design rules
• references/color-palettes.md — 20 curated color palettes
• references/font-pairings.md — 15 tested font pairings